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Bangshift Project Files Update: If You Hurry, You Can Own This Ford Truck/Crown Vic Combination!

We’ve looked at Nathan Kershaw’s 1969 Ford F-250 frame swap build before. It’s a neat premise: everything that makes a Crown Vic go, stop and in general be a great sedan, stuffed...

Wrecker Perfection! This 1956 International Is A Twin Boom Terror

(By Greg Rourke) – It’s no secret we love big trucks on BangShift. It’s also no secret we’re into old wreckers, as evidenced by the world famous Brutus wrecker owned, steered...

Morning Symphony: Rally Cars Tearing Up The Road Course!

“Adventure is taking inappropriate equipment to out-of-the-way places.” Outside of a meme that is probably ten years old or so, I don’t know who to attribute that particular quote...

No EFI? No Problem – COMP Cams Releases Front Drive Distributor Kit For LS Engines

As much as we are living in the age of the EFI revolution, there are still plenty of reasons guys want to run a carb on an engine that was never delivered with one. Perhaps the racing class you are...

Movie Car Chase: Two Scenes From The Movie “Brick Mansions”

Paul Walker might be immortalized with the “Fast and Furious” franchise but while Furious 7 was his final film role, the 2014 film “Brick Mansions” was his final...

Drag Action Photos: Coverage Of The GALOT Motorsports Mad Mule 2016 Finale

(Photos by Dave Whealon – DWPhotos.net) –  It’s a wrap. The final curtain fell on the Galot Motorsports Park’s inaugural 2016 drag racing season with the running of the Mad Mule...

Would You Rather, The Winter Workhorse Edition: Which Would You Take Out In The Cold, The Ford Or The Binder?

Yep, the leaves are finally down, the air has taken a turn for the crisper and colder, and it’s time to give up in the concept of fall and to start settling in for the winter months. While...

Historical Mayhem: Jumping Cars For Fun In Hednesford Back In 1994!

Demo derby addicts, here’s your heaven. Here in the U.S., the only way to see a near-death car take awesome flight before it’s final bow is to either go up to Glacier Bay, Alaska on the...

You Can Buy a House Next to Australia’s Most Epic Racetrack – Car Guy Heaven At Mount Panorama

OK, that photo might be a bit misleading; you don’t get to live in the Tekno Autosports McLaren 650S GT3 car during Shane Van Gisbergen’s record-setting lap, but the arrow points to a house...

Take a Close-Up Look at the Rally Preparations on a Lamborghini Gallardo – Weirdly Awesome Project

Back in 2014, American rally team Brakim Racing set out on a bizarre quest to turn a Lamborghini Gallardo for into a gravel rally car, the Brakimghini. They made a lot of progress on it, installing a...

The Driver Almost Took a Formula 3 Car to the Face at a Crazy Macau Grand Prix Corner

While much of social media has been abuzz with Laurens Vanthoor winning the GT3 World Cup at the Macau Grand Prix by sliding across the start-finish line upside-down, the headlining open-wheel race...

Jimmie Johnson Ties Petty, Earnhardt With 7th NASCAR Championship

On Sunday night at Homestead-Miami Speedway, Jimmie Johnson joined two of the most legendary names in American racing, Petty and Earnhardt, by capturing his seventh championship in NASCAR’s top...

More Wheels Up, Tire Smoking, Racing Action From Street Car Super Nationals

Pro Mods, 10.5, Radials, and more, the list goes on. Nothing says bitchin door car drag racing like the Street Car Super Nationals in Las Vegas. The racing action may be over, but that doesn’t...

This 1973 Toyota Hilux Pickup Is Old School Perfection

Classic mini trucks are all the rage lately, and with more than the traditional mini truck crowd. Pro Touring racers are building them, drag racers are building them, and a lot of folks are just...